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Why is anybody going to the match to sing these songs in the first place?

Your point about lack of a senior striker being brought in was a dereliction of duty. It's something we've done time and again. Even out our peak, an extra striker in either of the seasons we missed out on champions League and we'd have made it.

Why is anybody even going? Surely nobody turning up, and if you want do something protest wise elsewhere in the city after calling the mercury and BBC, would be more effective?

I've defended him a fair bit but that's no more defending him. The team is shite. Manager shite. Management behind the scenes shite.

Let's hope west brom win

Think he offers more pace at the back while we throw the big men forward

He's been absolutely diabolical today. Thinks he's better than he is. I don't want to see any of this team next season.

Anybody but Daka

Our players are utterly pathetic. What an abysmal few years for recruitment and performances. The fact rudkin has been promoted and not sacked is an utter joke. We deserve to go down, we're appalling.

Need to get JJ on and start pushing forwards

I think Rodgers was probably right that the squad needing freshening the second time we just missed out on champions league. We are incredible for half that season. But then the club weren't honest about their limitations at the same time as Rodgers let schmeical go, froze out soyuncu and nothing has been right since. It was that summer. Poor recruitment, a squad a season too far on, a manager that wanted out and we've never recovered.

I absolutely hate the version of when you're smiling that has played the last few times I've been there. Presume it hasn't changed this season. Slow and turgid, nothing like how it was sung in the stands in the past.

It's just the sort of thing to get the political class as very worked up and shouty. It's just performative nonsense tbh

They're using the drones to attack Russian military positions that are attacking them. So they are defensive.

That questions ignores two important things: 1- a big share of the debt is owed to ourselves in the form of the bank of England. 2- if you borrow to invest, the assets and investments that arise from that also potentially increase in value. What's missing from this discussion is that the interest may rise, but it may be more than matched by the economic benefits. Besides either of these points, the only way the economy is going to start growing is to spend to invest, to put money into the economy. Once we have a good level of growth THAT'S when you start looking at how to create a surplus. You don't try to create the surplus in the bad times. This is precisely the reason that Gordon brown as chancellor is the only one in decades to produce a surplus. Whereas Osborne cut and cut and all he produced was a double dip recession and increased debt.

I'm really not a fan of this type of economic thinking, which entirely ignores the economic benefits of spending money. If ordinary people have a little more money, money supply really isn't the cause of inflation currently, and it creates demand, supports local business, enables business investment, increases tax revenues. The idea that government borrowing is intrinsically bad is, in my opinion, one of the reasons why the economy is a mess. We spent 15 years cutting and wondered why living standards stagnated.

What I don't really understand is why he's decided to try and pander to reform voters rather than left wing voters, even there's more of the latter in every election, just split across more parties. Cost of living is the single biggest issue affecting the electorate right now - I understand the climate emergency we're in leicsmac but many don't. Every time there's been direct government intervention to support the public - whether it be the COVID furlough scheme, or any other policy that has directly provided support to individuals - it's been popular. Surely they could have come up with real, meaningful support regarding energy costs by now? Even if it was a direct government to energy companies payment coupled with deep drops to bills. The right would go argue like crazy, the telegraph would moan about national debt, but the public would be hugely positive I do not understand why they haven't, other than the fact I think starmar genuinely is trying to make long term decisions he thinks it's best, while keeping any deficits as low as they can (which is really just pandering to the right wing press as the Tories never really bother with that when they want to do something). Starmar it's too focused on what is "right", rather than remembering governments need to win elections if they want to remain governments.

BBC News - Top Foreign Office official to leave post after Mandelson vetting row https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c747r3v90k3o They're saying no minister was informed. As you say, sounds unlikely, but that's what we've got to go on

BBC News - Starmer did not know Mandelson failed vetting, government says BBC News - Starmer did not know Mandelson failed vetting, government says https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2r15151xgo He only knew that this week apparently.....

I often think this is the fault of parenting generations though. Nobody wants their kids going out alone any more. Play dates are organised by parents. Kids don't learn the same independence. I'm not sure it's the kids responsible for this.

I can't imagine it will be anywhere near as good. His and his administration's demands are incredibly basic, rather than meticulous and detailed under the Obama deal

The rest of Europe are reliant on renewables. Sweden is 99% renewable. You are wrong. And all the drilling in the north sea you can imagine does nothing for energy security as it still isn't owned by us and it's sold internationally. As for your previous post, it's a mix of biased opinion, conjecture, whataboutism and nonsense. Thatcher is the cause of this nation's ills. She sold off the nation's assets. She believed it would lead to the people becoming small shareholders and having a direct stake. All that happened is our national interests are now owned by huge multinationals that are there to skim profits rather than deliver services. See our water industry where the companies are over £60bn in debt and it just so happens that shareholders have took just over£60bn out in dividends. With rail, they underfunded it to make it bad to argue for privatisation. Yet taxpayer input INCREASED after privatisation. All privatisations have failed the people. On corporate governance her changes are what has caused ever increasing %s of national product to go to ceos and shareholders, rather than workers sharing in the increases profits they create. This change means more of the profits of the domestic product get lost from the economy as the ultra rich don't spend all their wealth, and so tax rates are going up and up for everybody else. She is the root cause. We are absolutely seeing successive governments overseeing national decline because nobody has yet undone what she did. Thatcher took short term gains in return for wrecking the country long term. You don't appear to really understand any of the things you are talking about. You're just rehearsing right wing propaganda without any real insight into what actually goes on as far as I can see. Id rather our conversation ends here.

All of your information appears to have come from a daily telegraph colouring book. Labour are hugely increasing defence spending. Tory cuts to defence spending meant that £75bn was cut from the department over their time in office. Over the first 7 years of Tory rule, real terms spending dropped by 22%, only riding back up to 2010 levels. Labour have already implemented spending increases equivalent to 3.8% a year to 2028/29 and gave committed to a much higher top end % of GDP spent on the military. So the facts do not support the nonsense you've written. On energy, we sold off our energy industry under Thatcher. We do not have the means to explore, extract or hold gas or oil. We can only sell licenses to private companies to explore who then drill and sell internationally. If we tried to make them sell to us at low cost, they wouldn't even bother exploring let alone drilling. Most of the north sea is heavily depleted. What is left is hard to reach and extract and has higher associated costs. So drilling WILL NOT reduce prices. Meanwhile, clean energy is up to 9x cheaper - you're putting up solar panels or windmills, not drilling under a sea - and means we can own our own energy production. It even means you can personally own your own energy production. Lanour are finally signing contracts for nuclear which the Tories refused to get signed so we will take a base load of nuclear underneath. This is the only way to cheap, UK owned energy. You really need to stop reading nonsense from right wing papers, GB news, reform etc. They are all heavily funded by big oil. If there was any doubt about man made climate change, the oil companies would make the scientists involved the richest scientists on earth and you would be reading their evidence everywhere. But you don't, and they don't, since even the oil companies have scientists that have been telling them for decades about man made climate change.

Yeah I can understand that view, I'm not against changing manager, tbh I think we just have really poor players and given multiple managers haven't been able to get a tune out of them I'm struggling to blame him at this point (beyond, perhaps, not trying a youth striker).

Sack rudkin and Glover and bring Eduardo Macia back as director of football with large guaranteed bonuses for promotion to championship and premier league. Bring in a CEO with football experience. Stick with Rowett as I think he'd do a good job with a new squad in league one. We just need sensible football with players that are committed and a level above other league one teams. Sell/loan/release literally every senior pro at the club. I don't see the point of keeping any of them. Nelson id keep if we could but that might be out of our hands. Go into next season with a mixture of youth players and whichever more senior pros macia can bring in. He did a really good job with recruitment last time, it's fallen off a cliff since he left, I'd put my faith in him.